after a busy last week things have calmed down significantly; about to finish a 900 page book in three days, which is quite an accomplishment
after a busy last week things have calmed down significantly; about to finish a 900 page book in three days, which is quite an accomplishment
I spent a few hours yesterday formatting an exam to send to the exam centre of my school.
Everything was set up just right. It only took 5 minutes. Clearly, I was wrong. Because the exam thing doesn’t accept PDF! Only Word files.
No problem. Turns out I already had multiple ways to convert the file (the
ebook-converttool from calibre worked really well).There. That was another 2 minutes. So, I went back to upload.
There is a size limit. Of course there is a size limit!
Now I have to go through the exam and “compress” the images I spent the last week preparing to get the file size down to 2.5 MB. That took a few minutes.
Then I had to manually enter every corrector and the number of groups they correct. There are 23 correctors with different numbers of groups.
Then I needed to manually enter the address of these people.
You see how this is adding up?
It is the slowest thing in the world too.
It was all set up when I got a message, at 8PM, telling me the exam would be on our online test thing and not printed!
Back to the starting block.
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Finally got it done after 4 hours!
And now we get to do it again for a different exam!